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  It’s All Child’s Play

  27.04.2016

  Last week I took part in two thought-provoking events at the Institution of Civil Engineers – the Roads 2016 conference and a workshop convened to help develop the National Needs Assessment for the National Infrastructure Commission. »

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  Go East, Young Man

  01.04.2016

  The one advantage of the long Easter weekend coming so early in 2016 is that it has given us all a chance to digest the wealth of new reports that came out in the preceding two weeks – Transport for the North’s update, the National Infrastructure Commission’s first three reports, HS2 Ltd’s report on links to Scotland and even the draft first National Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy on Easter Sunday itself. So, whilst gorging on Lindt chocolate bunnies (other cunicular confectionery is available), what have we learned? »

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  The Transport Professional’s Perfect Stocking Filler

  17.12.2015

  In November this year, I had the privilege of becoming Chair of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Transport Expert Panel. This has necessitated me spending quite a bit of time recently in London, and during one walk from the ICE’s headquarters in Westminster to meet a friend at Holborn, my eye was taken by a striking vision in a bookshop window near Leicester Square. »

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  Winning Planning Consents is Key to a Successful Economy

  29.09.2015

  With the supply of commercial space beginning to contract in our core cities, and the delivery of new houses lagging way behind Government targets, it is more important than ever that the planning process is able to efficiently deal with new applications and allow new development to proceed. »

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  Holding Out for a Hero

  17.08.2015

  This week, IPPR North have been holding the latest in their series of roundtable sessions as part of their debate as to whether we need a Great North Plan. Ed Cox and the team at IPPR North have been passionate advocates for greater devolution across the North, and were the first to call for an organisation called Transport for the North to be established in 2012. »

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